Trying to use device id from Voice Assistant

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In the release notes for 2024.4 it said:
“If you use a sentence trigger in your automation to trigger it using Assist. The trigger will now include the device_id in its trigger data you can automate with. Thanks, @synesthesiam!”

I’m not sure how I go about doing this. Does anyone have any examples or can you point me in the correct direction? Thanks in advance for the help.

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Use:

{{ trigger.device_id }}

This only works for satellites, not when used on a phone (probably computer too).

You could get the area the sentence was triggered like this:

{{ area_name(trigger.device_id) }}

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How to send a response (TTS or a .wav file?) to the device_id ?

I see various entities for Piper and my Wyoming Voice satellite - but no services.
It is not a media player, as required by the TTS services.

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I don’t think you are able to do that unfortunately.

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Thanks for the info. Is there a way to see what the device id is under developer tools or somewhere else when it is triggered? That I would be able to see exactly what is being passed. I know just enough to be dangerous and don’t know exactly where to go poking around. Thanks for the help.

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Not that Im aware of… If the device triggers an automation (or create a blank automation with that device), you can see the id in the Automation trace, in the trigger details